27 July 2012 Lochsa Lodge to Syringa ID 72 miles (TransAm 3,451) TGIF. Loverboy got it right when they sang “everybody’s working for the weekend.” This is what I was humming to myself last night as my plane lifted off from Newark, New Jersey, about 30 minutes ahead of a fast-moving front of severe thunderstorms. …
26 July 2012 Missoula MT to Lochsa Lodge ID 59 miles (TransAm 3,379) Welcome home to the great Pacific Northwest! To some, Idaho is known as the Gem State. I generally think of it as the Potato State. And pink. Idaho was always pink on the maps hanging on our elementary school walls. Washington was …
25 July 2012 Missoula MT 0 miles (TransAm 3,320) Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday dear Gina! Happy Birthday to you! Okay, so this posting is coming about a week after Gina’s birthday, but my hobby job had to take a back seat to the paying one so this is what …
24 July 2012 Darby to Missoula MT 67 miles (TransAm 3,320) Sometimes bike trails are boring, like sailing Puget Sound in a sea of fog. The safety they bring, the separation from traffic, is most welcome. But when the trail does nothing more than parallel a major highway, it leaves little to the imagination. The …
23 July 2012 Jackson to Darby MT 76 miles (TransAm 3,253) Gina is focusing on her finances these days, perhaps because she is nearing the end of her trip and has budgets to carefully consider lest they run out before she reaches the Pacific. Yesterday it was shopping the 40 percent off sale at the …
22 July 2012 Dillon to Jackson MT 49 miles (TransAm 3,177) “Emergency Situation” I whisper to myself. Thinking about the fact that Gina will return home in a few short weeks got me thinking about all the things that will need to be done around the house before her arrival. Things like putting away my …
21 July 2012 Ennis to Dillon MT 73 miles (TransAm 3,128) Aerial Tour of Seattle 600 ft’ish Gina cycled up another mountain pass. Given how many times she has crossed the Continental Divide over the past few weeks, this is just another typical day for her, the equivalent of that weekly meeting with one’s project …
24 July 2012 While the Wagon continues to roll West with her TransAmming pals, the Burrito is flying East on a business trip. This is nothing newsworthy in and of itself, but it does mean that the blog, already a few days behind (I call that Business As Usual) is about to get a few …
20 July 2012 West Yellowstone to Ennis MT 73 miles (TransAm 3,055) Someone is getting good at haiku. I present to you another haiku masterpiece, straight from the Wagon’s keyboard: montana big sky buffalo roam the vast land mountains near and far With Day 64 being The Wall, today’s gift of haiku from Gina is …
19 July 2012 West Yellowstone MT 0 miles (TransAm 2,982) I have figured it out. The number of days you can hold down a full-time day job and write part-time every evening about someone else’s summer vacation is 64. Then what happens? You find yourself shunning the computer for a new episode of Big Brother. …